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Business owners across the country are facing risings costs.
Prince and Dorothy Ogbuji own a cocktail bar in Southampton and Philip Bendon owns a gym in London.
For them, how politicians respond to rising prices will be a key issue in the local elections which take place across England, Scotland and Wales on May 5.